Avtor/Urednik		Artnik, Barbara; Vidmar, Gaj; Premik, Marjan
Naslov		A study on socio-economic determinants of mortality in Slovenia
Tip		članek
Vir		In: 8th annual meeting Health research to achieve the millennium development goals; 2004 Nov 16-20; Mexico City. Mexico city: ,
Leto izdaje		2004
Obseg		str. 1-10
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		A pioneering joint research has been conducted by the Department of Public Health (Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana) and the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development, to study the relationship between selected biological (age, sex), socio-economic (marital status, education, occupation, nationality etc.) and geographical factors (region), and the cause of death (classified according to the ICD-10) and age at death. With the help of Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovenian Institute of Public Health, a database was compiled for all deceased in Slovenia in 1992, 1995 and 1998. The diagnoses of the cause of death were linked to the data on the deceased from the 1991 Census. The paper focuses on premature mortality in Slovenia, i.e., deaths at age 25 to 64 (N=14,816). Statistical analyses demonstrate various correlations of socio-economic status with cause of death and age at death, as well as pinpoint geographical heterogeneity. As expected, males are dying younger across all socio-economic strata and from different prevailing causes than females. Differences in cause of death according to educational level were also observed, as well as differences associated to marital status. Examples of particularly pronounced mortality patterns include death due to neoplasms for married females with university degree and single males with unfinished elementary school dying due to external causes before age 35. Additionally, years-of-life-lost was calculated on the basis of population life-tables stratified by geographic region, and regressed on the studied individual characteristics. The study has been designed so as to allow periodic updates of the database. The data should aid in understanding the nature, prevalence and consequences of health problems as related to socio-economic inequalities, and thus serve as a basis for setting health and social policy goals and planning health measures. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters).
Deskriptorji		CAUSE OF DEATH MORTALITY SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS PUBLIC HEALTH LIFE TABLES PREVALENCE AGE FACTORS SEX FACTORS SLOVENIA